Saying Good Bye Inside Someone Else’s Story
I recently attended a native plant walk at Hyde Farm Park in Marietta, GA. It was a great walk. Hyde Farm was a multi-generation farm now preserved for historic and recreational use by a...
Letting Go
Mom was the last person on the top of my family tree. Her much younger sister is the remaining matriarch. We were a small family to begin with because everyone in recent generations had...
Loving Kindness
Have you heard about the Loving Kindness Meditation? I’ve written about it before as part of how I dealt with a particular cycling experience. Here is a good expanded explanation including the science of...
First Surprise
slow start New Year’s ride stiffness passes sunset nears fun suprise people cheer If you’ll be gone in 60 seconds, make it those last three paragraphs that you read. My last post was a...
Chasing Light
Solstice Tomorrow is the winter solstice. To be more accurate, it arrives in about 4 hours or, in my city/zip code/time zone of Roswell, GA at 4:20 am on Saturday, December 21, 2024, when...
Heroine with an “E”
Language is fluid, and the viscosity is decreasing. To keep up, dictionaries add new words, deem others archaic, and, especially in smaller editions, remove words as they fall from use. Change can be uncomfortable....
Drama, Drama, Drama
I’ve had this little packet of tissues for 11 years now. Realizing how long I’ve had it reminds me of my maternal grandmother who could hang on to something until no one knew what...
Quietly, Carefully, Consistently
Everything we do matters. It all has an effect and we get to choose the effect we have. Some people are considered and careful, some live somewhere between “move fast and break stuff” and...
Late One Night
Personal Road Trip Strategy There was a really memorable night a long time ago. We were moving from Savannah, Georgia to Louisville, Kentucky. During the years around that move, if I was going to...